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Time-Only Watches: The Case for Pure Simplicity

Some watches grab your attention with bells and whistles, extra hands, a plethora of subdials, complications stacked like a résumé, and textures layered like your latest vision board. And yet there are watches that are far more disarming, and in a way, much more intriguing, because you’re pulled in through their simplicity. Watch enthusiasts celebrate ingenuity and complexity, yet there’s something visually compelling in a properly executed three-hand, time-only watch. You can gawk at a tourbillon, try to decipher and set your perpetual calendar, and marvel at that one time every four years it hits that 29 at the end of February. But brilliantly-considered simplicity never gets old, and often, that apparent simplicity reveals itself as something far more deliberate.

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